Archive for 'campaigns'
Tell David Cameron to Make Food Fair at the G8 Summit
During Fairtrade Fortnight, the Make Food Fair campaign was launched by the Fairtrade Foundation. Smallholder farmers produce the majority of the world’s food, but they also make up half of the world’s hungriest people. Many rely on co-operatives to help them get their food to market. The G8 summit this June takes place in the [...]
Playing legal loan sharks at their own game in Edinburgh
After attending a campaign training session at Summerfest, the National Youth Committee rep for Scotland, Hannah Lister returned home full of ideas and, working closely with Labour and Co-operative MSP Kezia Dugdale, has become a key part of the Debtbusters campaign in Edinburgh. Here she tells us what they’ve been up to. As a full time Labour [...]
Bringing the End Legal Loansharking campaign to Labour Party Conference
The Co-operative Party’s Development & Campaigns Officer Rebecca Mattingly previews tonight’s Labour Party Conference event. Today at Labour Party Conference, the Co-operative Party will join with Movement for Change for an End Legal Loansharking campaign training session. Speakers including Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP and Stella Creasy MP will build on growing activism around the [...]
Co-operative Party bolsters Legal Loanshark Campaign
Co-operative Party member Hannah Lister reports on the recent Summerfest training event for Co-operative Party activists on our new campaign to end legal loan sharking and promote credit unions as a safer, more affordable alternative. The fight against loansharks and the promotion instead of fair and transparent Credit Unions is something that is a high [...]
Move Your Money: if the banks won’t change, you can
Today the Royal Bank of Scotland, which also owns Natwest and is 83% owned by the taxpayer, announced bonuses of £800 million despite losses amounting to £2 billion. Meanwhile their score of -13 on Yougov’s consumer confidence index means RBS remains the least popular bank in the country. They’re not alone. Over coming days, Lloyds [...]
Campaigning with Stella Creasy MP against legal loan sharks, for credit unions
There are yet more payday lenders arriving in Walthamstow – two new shops have opened recently on the High Street, another Money Shop as well as a business called Cash Generator. As we near the end of the month and local people find their pay packets stretched to breaking point, I’m asking you to join [...]
Activists campaign around the country for a fairer economy
Campaigners around the country answered our call for a national Day of Action for our campaign The Feeling’s Mutual for a fairer economy and the re-mutualisation of Northern Rock. Take a look at some of the photos from cities up and down the UK. In Catford, South London, campaigners handed out the campaign ‘cheques’ to [...]
Help Andrew Pakes in Milton Keynes
Labour & Co-operative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Milton Keynes Andrew Pakes looks ahead to the joint Labour & Co-operative Party campaign day this weekend. Tory attacks on the NHS, rising youth unemployment (even in MK), higher bills and lower wages, cuts to local police numbers – the Tories and Lib Dems are getting away with [...]
Re-mutualise Northern Rock – a day of action!
Co-operative Party activists will be taking to high streets across the country on Saturday October 15th to publicise our “The Feeling’s Mutual” Campaign. Co-operators will be setting up street stalls, handing out campaigning cheques, and asking members of the public to sign our petition. The campaign calls for the re-mutualisation of Northern Rock and for a [...]
Sign up to support the Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill
As we outline here, this week Labour & Co-operative MP Jonathan Reynolds is introducing a Co-operative Party initiated parliamentary bill to end the essentially feudal nature of England’s land ownership laws and create a new form of tenure, Co-operative Housing Tenure. David Rodgers of CDS Co-ops explains why this change is so necessary over on [...]
